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1	The Sheltering Sky more books like this by Paul Bowles add to wishlist Tells the story of an American couple's fated attempt to regenerate their strange and troubled marriage as they journey through North Africa. The book is a portrayal of a man's physical and mental disintegration and is written by the author of "Midnight Mass". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Stories of Paul Bowles more books like this by Paul Bowles add to wishlist An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Tobias Wolff. From "The Delicate Prey" to "Too Far from Home, " this definitive collection celebrates Bowles' masterful artistry in short fiction. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Without Stopping: An Autobiography more books like this by Paul Bowles add to wishlist This autobiographical work by Paul Bowles contains some of the qualities of his best fiction-writing: lyrical language, concise observation, and a glimpse of the mystery at the heart of things. The book is so unrevealing about the personal details of his life that Jane Bowles jokingly called it "Without Telling," but it does provide a fascinating ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	The Spider's House more books like this by Paul Bowles add to wishlist In 1954, Moroccan resistance to French rule is reaching boiling point, and only four English-speaking visitors are left at a hotel in the medieval city of Fez. To Amar, a young Moslem, they are enticing, and as the rebellion grows he believes he is helped by knowing the inner feelings of others. see all copies from $2.42! new only from $9.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	A House is Not a Home more books like this by Bruce Weber, Paul Bowles (Foreword by) add to wishlist This is an insight into the idiosyncratic flourishes which make a house into a home. Photographer Bruce Weber takes the reader around the world, looking at how creative individuals' homes reflect their own particular personalities. Here are interiors and exteriors, panoramas and details: Siegfried and Roy's tiger-striped (and tiger-filled) Las ... see all copies from $50.00! signed copies \| first editions
6	Collected Stories, 1939-1976 more books like this by Paul Bowles, Gore Vidal (Introduction by) add to wishlist The publication by Black Sparrow in 1979 of Paul Bowles' Collected Stories sparked the rediscovery of Bowles' works that has brought world renown to the American expatriate writer, for decades resident in Tangier, Morocco. Gore Vidal's Introduction to this large collection remarks "His stories are among the best ever written by an American". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky/ Let It Come Down/ The Spider's House more books like this by Paul Bowles add to wishlist Three works by America's great writer-in-exile are gathered in this annotatedcollector's edition, the companion to "Collected Stories and Later Writings." see all copies from $15.44! new only from $22.37! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Up above the world more books like this by Paul Bowles add to wishlist Dr Slade and his wife are on holiday in Latin America when they meet Grove, a charming and strikingly good-looking young man, and his beautiful mistress. An apparently chance encounter, it opens the door to an atmosphere shivering with nastiness. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	For Bread Alone more books like this by Mohamed Choukri, Paul Bowles add to wishlist Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangiers in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of Mohamed's siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. On moving to another province, Mohamed learns how to charm and steal, and discovers the joys of ... see all copies from $10.38! new only from $36.24!
10	Too Far from Home: The Selected Writings of Paul Bowles more books like this by Paul Bowles add to wishlist This generous collection includes four novels, including THE SHELTERING SKY, as well as the title novella and 12 stories. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.27! \| first editions
11 view cover	Yesterday's Perfume: An Intimate Memoir of Paul Bowles more books like this by Cherie Nutting, Paul Bowles add to wishlist Cherie Nutting recalls her friendship with novelist Paul Bowles in this memoir, which covers his last 10 years. Her text is accompanied by a selection of transcribed conversations, photographs, and fragments of Bowles's unpublished writings. Throughout, the expatriate circle of Morocco is vividly portrayed. see all copies from $3.47! new only from $6.75! \| first editions
12 view cover	Let It Come Down more books like this by Paul Bowles add to wishlist "Let it Come Down" tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his macabre experiences in the inferno of Tangiers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Points in Time: Tales from Morocco by Paul Bowles add to wishlist In this intense and brilliant book Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing expreience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes. He distills for us the very essence of Moroccan culture. With extraordinary immediacy, he takes the reader on a journey through the Moroccan centuries, pausing at points along ... see all copies from $4.96! new only from $7.92! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Oblivion Seekers more books like this by Isabelle Eberhardt, Paul Bowles (Translator) add to wishlist Stories and journal notes by an extraordinary young woman-adventurer and traveler, Arabic scholar, Sufi mystic and adept of the Djillala cult. Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was an explorer who lived and traveled extensively throughout North Africa. She wrote of her travels in numerous books and French newspapers, including Nouvelles AlgA(c ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $11.42! \| first editions
15 view cover	A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard more books like this by Jack Bowles, Paul Bowles add to wishlist These are four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of a possible enemy. He of the Assembly catches himself up in the mesh of his own kif-dream and ... see all copies from $2.77! new only from $6.17! \| SVS
16 view cover	Delicate Prey: And Other Stories more books like this by Paul Bowles add to wishlist Exemplary storles that reveal the blzarre, the dlsturblng, the perllous, and the wlse ln other clvlllzatlons -- from one of Amerlca's most lmportant wrlters of the twentleth century. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Delicate Prey more books like this by Paul Bowles add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories more books like this by Paul Bowles add to wishlist A compilation of Bowles's best short fiction, by the author himself. An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Jay McInerney. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Literary Trips: Following in the Footsteps of Fame more books like this by Victoria Brooks (Editor), Paul Bowles (Foreword by), Bob Shacochis (Introduction by) add to wishlist "The excitement of finding something strange consists precisely in noting its strangeness," says Paul Bowles in the foreword. In his final bit of writing before his death, Bowles hit on the driving force that impels the best travel writers: the urge to tell someone about their trips. In this book, they find the opportunity, bringing readers along ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Morocco more books like this by Paul Frederick Bowles, Barry Brukoff (Photographer) add to wishlist Morocco - the name of this North African country conjures up romantic images of exotic Marrakesh, the casbah in Tangier or Fez, colourful marketplaces, and mysterious veiled women. No American writer is more closely identified with Morocco than Paul Bowles, who travelled there with his wife, Jane, in the 1930s and remained as a famous expatriate ... see all copies from $16.65! first editions
21 view cover	Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World more books like this by Paul Bowles, Edmund White (Introduction by) add to wishlist "Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue" is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found pleasure in the inaccessible and who ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Collected Stories & Later Writings by Paul Bowles, Daniel Halpern (Editor) add to wishlist This first annotated edition of Bowles' later works offers the full range of his achievements and contains his masterpiece of travel writing, "Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue." see all copies from $17.98! new only from $25.50! \| first editions
23 view cover	Conversations with Paul Bowles more books like this by Gena Dagel Caponi (Editor), Paul Bowles add to wishlist Paul Bowles says: . Each man's life has the quality he gives it, but you can't say that life itself has any qualities. If we suffer, it's because we haven't learned how not to. The man who wrote the books didn't exist. No writer exists. He exists in his books, and that's all. I write unconsciously, without knowing what I am writing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.43! \| first editions \| SVS
24	In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles more books like this by Paul Bowles, Jeffrey Miller (Editor) add to wishlist Four hundred letters from the 1930s to the 1960s detail Bowles's intense responses to the places he has lived, from Manhattan to the Sahara, as well as his relationships with such artists as Gertrude Stein, Aaron Copland, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and William S. Burroughs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $54.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Days: Tangier Journal: 1987-1989 more books like this by Paul Bowles add to wishlist Between 1987 and 1989, Paul Bowles, at the suggestion of a friend, kept a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is more than just a record of the meals, conversations, and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering Sky , but a fascinating look at an artist at work in a new medium. Characterized by a refreshinng ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| first editions

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